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Immersed in the delusion

My skull a gaping chasm

Inside there lies pink liquid cloud

The air bleeds into pastel

Absorbing every brain cell

The dissolution of my mind

The world fades away like a burning reel

Strip away the top layer, see what's underneath

There's corruption in form, revealing artefacts

What is true? What is real? Does it matter now?

I am lost in the haze of a burning fire

Lucid phantoms of doubt rising from the ground

They reveal that they know with malicious grins

But their eyes remain dead, dead but peering

Still, the voices surround me - closing in

Loud, drowning out every frequency in my brain

I am screaming to myself through a screen

This is a document of my memory

It will all go away

Hazel halo through the darkness

Desert sands surround the iris

Chasm plunging deep within the morning dune

Within I see the inside

Radius of veins all aligned

The machine exsanguinates our planet

It sears, it soothes

The fire consumes

I cross the border, a waking sleep in daylight

A scorching sound obliterates my name, my presence

Within this, ellipsis, revealing my own sickness

I nurture, I perjure, I've become a deserter

What can I say, what can I do? I have become a vapor

The condensation in the air, rotting the margins everywhere

Run through the air, through the trees, through the rain

Soar through the clouds, through the lens

Take me home